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ArticleMicrobial genomics2020

Genomic variant-identification methods may alter

Katharine S Walter, Caroline Colijn, Ted Cohen, Barun Mathema, Qingyun Liu, Jolene Bowers, David M Engelthaler, Apurva Narechania, Darrin Lemmer, Julio Croda and 1 more

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Article in Microbial genomics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Katharine S WalterDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Caroline ColijnDepartment of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Ted CohenDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
Barun MathemaDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Qingyun LiuSchool of Basic Medical Science of Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China.
Jolene BowersTranslational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
David M EngelthalerTranslational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Apurva NarechaniaAmerican Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY, USA.
Darrin LemmerTranslational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Julio CrodaSchool of Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil.
Jason R AndrewsDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Translational Genomics Research Institute · USStanford University · USAmerican Museum of Natural History · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · USFudan University · CNSimon Fraser University · CAUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul · BRYale University · US

Funding

Strategies for tuberculosis control in prisonsR01AI130058 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Jason Randolph Andrews, Julio Henrique Rosa Croda · 2017 to 2026
$5.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI130058
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathogen genomic data are increasingly used to characterize global and local transmission patterns of important human pathogens and to inform public health interventions. Yet, there is no current consensus on how to measure genomic variation. To test the effect of the variant-identification approach on transmission inferences for

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